Across
- 2. The Soviet leader whose reform policies of glasnost and perestroika inadvertently hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- 6. The massive, year-long logistical operation undertaken by the U.S. and Britain to deliver food and supplies to a blockaded German city.
- 7. The pivotal 1945 conference where the "Big Three" discussed the post-war partition of Germany and Europe.
- 8. The heavily guarded physical barrier constructed in 1961 to stop East Germans from fleeing to the West.
- 10. Winston Churchill's famous metaphorical term for the ideological and physical divide across Europe.
Down
- 1. The infamous crossing point between East and West Berlin, famously the site of a 1961 tank standoff.
- 3. The overarching U.S. foreign policy doctrine aimed at stopping the global spread of communism.
- 4. The massive U.S. financial aid initiative designed to rebuild Western European economies and prevent communist uprisings after WWII.
- 5. The collective defense treaty signed by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern Bloc satellite states in response to Western alliances.
- 9. The Western military alliance established in 1949 to provide collective security against the Soviet threat.